Coalitions are organisations whose members combine abilities and knowledge to carry out mutual purposes. Rather than to be composed by a team of equals, coalitions generally require a hierarchical structure of command and ...

The coordination of resource and activity to achieve some common objective is a key task within modern virtual organisations.
The SemanticWeb initiative promises to increase the number of knowledge and information resources ...

Real-time automatic and continuous information gathering through EcoGrid offers an unique and immense opportunity for long term ecological monitoring and planning.
However, the vast amount of raw data gathered must be ...

In the last decades, many advances have been made in intelligent planning systems. Significant improvements related to core problems, providing faster search algorithms
and shortest plans have been proposed. However, there ...

I was interested in computers by the age of 15 and gave talks on them at school. I attended evening classes a couple of years later while still at school travelling on the bus for an hour in the evening to a college in ...

In this work we discuss and propose a new approach for semantic enhancement in mobile devices profiling. This work is motivated by the lack of semantic in existing profiling methods and is part of a broaden framework for ...

This paper describes a new agent framework that fuses an HTN planner, through its underlying conceptual model, with the mental attitudes of the BDI agent architecture, thus exploiting the strengths of each. On the one hand, ...

The Collaborative Operations for Personnel Recovery (Co-OPR) project sought to
provide collaborative task support for a Search and Rescue coordination center. The
project aimed to create a prototype “Personnel Recovery ...

Tackling real-world problems often requires to take various types of constraints into account. Such constraint types range from simple numerical comparators to complex resources. This article describes how planning techniques ...

When we talk about planning with templates,we mean standard operating procedures we've learned or been trained to use for solving typical problems and as a starting point for solving novel problems. These structures ...